I saw / pictures in my head / and I swear / I saw you opening up again

I have been really good about exercising for the past couple weeks. My weight has been creeping up ever since mid-February, when I got so sick after the half marathon in Austin. I didn’t exercise while I was sick, and was slow to get back into a regular schedule. When I did do something, it was a soccer game, or swimming, or bike riding–mostly bike riding, as I prepared for the MS150. I haven’t been running much, and the heat this summer is getting to me more than in the past, which will make the Peachtree interesting on the 4th.

But the past couple weeks I’ve been really good about working out, because I want to lose the 5 pounds I’ve gained since February, and hopefully 5 more. Marty was tallying calories at coke break one day (he’s big into weight lifting and counts his calories religiously), so I had him add mine up. By coke break, I had already had almost 1600 calories! And I hadn’t eaten dinner yet! What can I say–I like food.

So. I just have to be diligent in my exercise planning to make sure it actually happens. Last night I was going to sit at home, still sore from Saturday’s adventure race, but I know I won’t get any exercise tonight because we’re going to the baseball game. So I dragged myself to the elliptical machine for half an hour. I watched the Astros while I ellipticalled. They went down 4-0, but rallied for the 7-5 win once I was back in my apartment watching the end. It was nice to see them come from behind for the first time in what feels like forever.

The toughest part about trying to lose this 5 pounds is staying away from Jo’s candy drawer in the afternoons. Mmm, candy. I have no willpower.

Jen wrote up a trip report from the Jen-Gavin-Becca trip to Colorado, and I posted it for her here. You can all go read it and join me in being jealous that they got to go hike in the mountains while I was doing a triathlon in freaking hot Austin.